Once Upon A Time
there were 2 women.
They both had a baby son.
One baby died.
One baby lived.
The mother of the baby who died,
switched her baby with the baby who lived,
while the mother of the live baby was sleeping.
In the morning there was quite a stir
when the mother awoke and found her baby dead,
yet she knew it wasn't her baby.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
They went to
King Solomon.
The INNOCENT MOTHER pleaded her case~
“During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”*
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
But the GUILTY MOTHER replied~
“No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.”*
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
And the arguing continued to go back and forth,
until the King offered a solution~
“This one says, ‘My son is alive and your son is dead,’ while that one says, ‘No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
Then the king said, 'Bring me a sword.'
So they brought a sword for the king.
He then gave an order: 'Cut the living child in two
and give half to one and half to the other.'*
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
"The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son
and said to the king,
'Please, my lord,
give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!' ”
But the other said, 'Neither I nor you shall have him.
Cut him in two!'"*
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
"Then the king gave his ruling: 'Give the living baby to the first woman.
Do not kill him; she is his mother.'” *(1 Kings 3:16-28).
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
The moral of this story, isn't a moral but TRUTH.
The mother of the living son was telling THE TRUTH
and it was if it was landing on deaf ears.
BUT GOD HEARS. BUT GOD KNOWS.
Because
GOD IS JUST!
The mother of the dead son was not telling
THE TRUTH,
yet it appeared as if she was being heard,
because
THE TRUTH telling mother was not being heard.
BUT THE TRUTH telling mother
was
willing to sacrifice her son
and give her son to the lying woman,
so he would live.
Isn't that what LOVE does?
Didn't GOD sacrifice HIS SON,
so that we would LIVE?
"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD"
(listen to the song below)
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